Senior Project Manager, Strategic Projects (Open to Remote)

Bertelsmann•New York, NY

5d•$100,000 - $120,000•Remote

About The Position

In a rapidly evolving environment, book publishers face interesting and complex business challenges that require innovation and change. Within Penguin Random House, the Strategic Projects group partners with operational and publishing groups to address many of these challenges. We are looking for an experienced Senior Project Manager with strong business analysis skills to deliver results on our most complex and mission-critical strategic projects for marketing, sales, technology, supply chain, and operations, spanning across multiple lines of our business. As an ideal candidate, you will thrive in a self-directed and goal-oriented environment. You will be an excellent communicator, innovative, and able to build business cases and solve complex problems. You will be comfortable initiating, planning, and executing work to successful completion autonomously. You will be comfortable leading discussions with business leaders to start that process and managing day-to-day discussions with stakeholders, developers, and testers. This role requires leadership and end-to-end ownership, while coordinating across teams and in conjunction with business stakeholders.

Requirements

5+ years of project management, consulting, or other relevant experience, with demonstrated success managing complex cross-functional initiatives
Experience in process and technology change
Experience learning and documenting business processes quickly and efficiently
Ability to understand and analyze processes to identify gaps and opportunities for improvement
Strong relationship-building skills and experience leveraging relationships in a matrixed environment to drive results
Comfortable working across all levels of the organization (individual contributors to senior leadership)

Nice To Haves

Background in any of the following industries a plus but not required: Publishing; Entertainment; Consumer Products
Experience implementing SAP or other ERP
Experience implementing other enterprise applications a plus, such as Salesforce; Jira or other Atlassian products

Responsibilities

Lead discussions with business leaders and stakeholders to define project scope, goals, business requirements, and deliverables
Lead cross-functional teams from across the organization to execute multi-threaded projects
Create project plans, work breakdown structures, and communications to ensure projects stay on track
Manage roll-out, documentation, and hand off resultant systems and processes to relevant teams
Provide ongoing communication and status updates to support business leaders, stakeholders, and the Strategic Project portfolio
Lead project evaluations, retrospectives, and other assessments of results
Leverage project management tools such as Jira, Monday.com, and MS Planner to manage teams and communicate statuses.